Fountain brush



July 3o, 1929. M 505s Y 1,722,686

FOUNTAIN BRUSH Filed June 12, 1928 mn it' MAH( Inventor @i l ,By WMM Attorney Patented July 30, 1929.

f anat MARK soss, or sroKANE, WASHINGTON.

FOUNTAIN BRUSH.

Application led June 12,

My present invention relates to an improved fountain brush of the type carrying a reservoir or liquid soap chamber, and possessing means whereby the liquid or powdered soap may be fed from the reservoir to supply the detergent to the bristles of the brush. My invention may be embodied for use in scrubbing brushes, bath brushes, clothes-v cleaning brushes, or it may be embodied in various other hand-operated brushes, Where the supply of detergent is carried in the reservoir formed in the head of the brush. The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts involving the hollow head forming the reservoir or soap chamber, and means whereby the feed of the liquid or powdered soap may be controlled with facility, and in other combinations as will hereinafter be more fully pointed out and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical 4application of the principles of my invention.V

Figure 1 is a perspective view of .a hand operated brush involving my invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view at line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the brush head with the body and slide valve removed.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the slide plate or valve for controlling and regulating the feed of the liquid soap from the reservoir to the bristles.

Figure 5 is a plan view showing the slide valve in closed position.

Figure 6 is a plan view showing the slide valve in open position.

Figure 7 is an enlarged view as at line 7-7 of Figure 2 showing a part of the body, head and slide valve.

In carrying out my invention the parts of the brush are fashioned from suitable material and in appropriate sizes for thepurose injoned with bristles in tufts 2 that are fastened in bosses 3 of the head, stitches or wire loops 4L being extended transversely of the brush head for securing the bristles and tufts. As best seen in Figure 3 the head is detail sectional i and the head 1 of the brush is fash-`V 1928. Serial No. 284,784.

provided with a number of transversely extending slots 5 of wavy or zig-Zag shape through which the liquid or powdered soap may be fed to the bristles, the tufts 2 being arranged in rows thaty alternate with the grooves or slot-s of the head so that the liquid detergent may be fed at both sides of each row of tufts.

The head is fashioned with a retaining flange 6 to which the body 7 is attached by means of complementary flanges 8 of the body, the flanges 8 being set into the grooves formed by the flanges 6 of the head, and this hollow body forms the reservoir for the detergent or liquid soap. The reservoir may be supplied to the level indicated in Figure 2 through the open top of the body when the lid or cover 9 is opened. The lid is hinged to the body at 10 and is provided with a snap fastening 11 of suitable type, a handle 12 being provided for holding the brush while being supplied, as well as for use in manipulating the brush.

The feed of the detergent from t-he reservoir is controlled and regulated by means of a fiat slide plate or valve 13 wit-hin the reservoir that may be manipulated by use of the thumb-piece 14 on one end of the valve and which projects to the exterior of the reservoir for ready access by the thumb in pushing or pulling the slide valve. Thee slide valve is movable longitudinally of the reservoir and is guided in lateral guide grooves 15 of the body or side walls of the reservoir, and the valve is fashioned with a plurality of transversely extending slots or ports 16 corresponding to the ports or slots in the brush head. rIhe feed of the liquid soap.` is controlled by adjusting the ports of the slide valve with the stationary ports of the brush head, and as seen in Figures 5 and 6 the ports may be entirely closed or entirely opened as shownin these figures of the drawing. The slide valvemay be adjusted to partially open the ports, and with a little practice oreXperience, the person handling the brush may with facility adjust the slide valve to feed the required quantity of liquid detergent from the reservoir.

Having thus fully described my inven: i

tion, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The combination with a hollow body formL1 ing a reservoir, a handle attached thereto, a slide valve having complementary transand an exterior flange on said body forming versely extending slots and its edges guided van interior groove, of a head having a rein the grooves of the body, an exterior thumb 10 taining ange engaging saidl first mentioned piece for the valve, and a hinged lid on the 5 iange and a series of transverse rows of reservoir.

tufts in the head, said head having a plu-V In testimony whereof I affix my signature. rality of transversely extending, wavy, slots, MARK SAOSS. 

